By Dorene Internicola NEW YORK (Reuters) - Baby boomers, the generation that vowed to stay forever young, are getting older, designing senior-friendly gyms and becoming their own personal trainers. In exercise havens for the over-50 set, the cardio machines are typically low impact, the resistance training is mainly air-powered and some group fitness classes are taken sitting down. At Welcyon gyms, founded by husband-and-wife boomers Suzy and Tom Boerboom, the average age of members is 62.

OTTAWA - The first pack of data from 2011's National Household Survey comes with the census equivalent of a Surgeon General's warning: make any historical comparisons at your own risk. Slapped across the back pages of most of the Statistics Canada documents released Wednesday is a disclaimer that the voluntary National Household Survey is an altogether different beast than the now-scrapped mandatory long-form census.

By Alan Wheatley, Global Economics Correspondent RIGA/LISBON (Reuters) - Long after the debt crisis is over, Europe will be grappling with an even more serious problem - how to pay for growing numbers of old people. The population of some countries is stagnant or already shrinking, notably Germany's. That will reduce savings and potential economic growth. The workers who remain are getting older and so are less productive. That will hold back living standards.

A higher level of migrants settling from Eastern Europeans makes West Europeans feel happier about immigration in general, a new study says. The British Sociological Association’s annual conference in London heard on April 3 that people rated the economic and cultural benefits of immigration more highly the more East Europeans migrants there were in their country. Anne-Marie Jeannet, a graduate student researcher at the University of Oxford, told the conference that she examined responses by 95,685 people in 15 West European countries (including Greece) to the European Social S